感恩自然，感恩太阳给予我们光明和温暖，感恩明月照亮了夜空，感恩朝霞捧出了黎明，感恩夕阳带走了白天，感恩春风融化冰雪，感恩大地抚育了生灵还有我们……我们应该怀着真诚、感恩的心去感谢生命中它们能存在。
感恩节小诗《心存感激》
Be thankful that you don't already have everything you desire,
If you did, what would there be to look forward to?
感谢你没有渴求到的一切东西，
如果得到了你就不会再有期待。
Be thankful when you don't know something,
For it gives you the opportunity to learn.
感谢你对一些事情的迷惑不解，
因为你可以有学习的机会。
Be thankful for the difficult times,
During those times you grow.
感谢那些困难的日子，
因为你学会了成长。
Be thankful for your limitations,
Because they give you opportunities for improvement.
感谢自己的能力所限，
因为这样才有机会提高。
Be thankful for each new challenge,
Because it will build your strength and character.
感谢每一次新的挑战，
因为它会塑造你的个性和力量。
Be thankful for your mistakes,
They will teach you valuable lessons.
感谢你所犯的每一次错误，
因为你可以得到宝贵的教训。
Be thankful when you're tired and weary,
Because it means you've made a difference.
感谢自己的疲倦不堪，
因为这意味着你已经有了改变。
Be thankful for your past relationships,
Someone better suited to you is waiting out there.
感谢你逝去的恋情，
因为更合适的人正在某处等你。
It's easy to be thankful for the good things.
A life of rich fulfillment comes to those who
are also thankful for the setbacks.
对美好的事物感恩很容易;
精彩的人生属于那些对挫折也心存感激的人。
Gratitude can turn a negative into a positive.
Find a way to be thankful for your troubles,
and they can become your blessings.
感激之心能将消极变得积极。
学会对自己的烦恼心存感激,
它们就会变成你的赐福!
【我们感谢生活】
it's not the turkey alone we're grateful for. not the cranberry sauce or the stuffing or even the pumpkin pie. some of the people seated at the table are strangers - friends of friends, cousins of in-laws - and some are almost desperately familiar, faces we live and work with every day.
in any other week, today would merely be thursday and the gathering of all these people - the cooking and serving and cleaning - a chore. but today it doesn't feel that way. the host - perhaps it's you - stands up and asks that we give thanks, and we do, each in our own way. and what we're thankful for is simply this, the food, the shelter, the company and, above all, the sense of belonging.
as holidays go, thanksgiving is in some ways the most philosophical. today we try not to take for granted the things we almost always take for granted. we try, if only in that brief pause before the eating begins, to see through the well-worn patterns of our lives to what lies behind them. in other words, we try to understand how very rich we are, whether we feel very rich or not. today is one of the few times most americans consciously set desire aside, if only because desire is incompatible with the gratitude - not to mention the abundance - that thanksgiving summons.
it's tempting to think that one thanksgiving is pretty much like another, except for differences in the guest list and the recipes. but it isn't true. this is always a feast about where we are now. thanksgiving reflects the complexion of the year we're in. some years it feels buoyant, almost jubilant in nature. other years it seems marked by a conspicuous humility uncommon in the calendar of american emotions.
and this year? we will probably remember this thanksgiving as a banquet of mixed emotions. this is, after all, a profoundly american holiday. the undertow of business as usual seems especially strong this year. the shadow of a war and misgivings over the future loom in the minds of many of us. most years we enjoy the privacy of thanksgiving, but this year, somehow, the holiday feels like part of a public effort to remember and reclaim for ourselves what it means to be american.
that means giving thanks for some fundamental principles that should be honored every day of the year in the life of this nation - principles of generosity, tolerance and inclusion. this is a feast that no one should be turned away from. the abundance of the food piled on the table should signify that there is plenty for all, plenty to be shared. the welcome we feel makes sense only if we also extend it to others.
